Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-30
CHAPTER VII


The case dragged Oil for several days, and
nothing Of Importance interviewed 70 all The
questions Roger answered:
81 am innocent, but | shall not defend my
self. They can do as they please with me"
He delivered himself up to the fatality
which seemed to have taken possession of
him. II there had been the least doubt in the
| mind OF the justices Or Lack Of connecting
links in the chain OF evidence, Roger might
have been saved, but unhaupiy everything
seemed to point to his guilt, and all these
things formed in the mind of NJ. De Iigne.
| ROLES an unsuitable proof After this first
examination the case was sent up to the court
| of asSiGaS Of oaineet Disc, then in session at
| Versailles
Henriette learned this through the papers
| She went Ciit no more and seemed buried in
| strange torpOr, mental and physical She
never pronounced u word and even seemed to
forge the existence Of her little girl, and sat
! hours without moving or appearing to see
She Ate almost nothing AMI dill not attempt
to 9 to t2l ut all. aHl If She jill sleep it was
sitting il he: rha:.
!!'r LITTLE Sirl watched over her vs. If she
VS. IN, m1'Ae" AMI Henriatte the child and
sh, lo"bt!e., w,rlI have star III had it not
Dsal Tor til, chilli
lleHri'tta hal al uncle who lived at some
thirty u, forty uiiles from there and hearing
| Of hl> a","S trouble, IL aud his good cid
| Wiz lett the;c HON, an! foundry and
| fastened 90 her and Tho Chl,.SS old couple
did every ching they could possibly imagine to
tighten her sad load.
One morning Ueuriette was gone There
was no trace Of her to b. lis.ov red and the
most dilig9nt search revealed nothing, until
one day, some six or seven days after her dis
| appearance, a policeman found Oh tn. bank
OF tho river y tiny slipper viii IA was recog-
niznd a. hers.
Then they dragged the river aul searched
for miles along It's banks, but they never
found tht body Of poor Ilenriet,e and the
uncle AMI aunt remained in the hoI,e to keep
charge II it until Rogers t.al was ended.
Little S;zann, sat !lSt.ns, AMI pale in her
chair dag after day, lo1,inS but seldom,
though she never mentioned tn. absence Of
hor father nor the draa.'t:j p:'lyd through
wiiirh ,A' had passed..
MINI 81 E5,rYiiln hal dreamed Of ven
;;2nt". IN wIs NOV a, u1ed mora conf
, pI'f'!v t!4l s'ir la! vi,Ae} She had threat
ea"l =, '.,'r ".'I 49, weight ~navauEa M,
! hu, .''..-,t .:. v+...' "a bad CYL II to
| lH"';'@t'', dr. .'o..11.s va, "onrluIsi A
f'' LA, arttr '4!, Lgvrr5la, aul only two
hpi.r 49, rtI' !.,,i' OF l-.... 'lat.e appeared
II h." wn'"' ]y;;. VS., Il. was soma.
VIA .).''. bua 'ool ,t1l ',ta.,5. AMI hi, lress
Wa .rr;.pa'ab II" "a:H, up to hey ana
haliaI i.'r yl.'.;l.. u b!;'. notes
WHAT, this" ass 81 she
The l)t)O franz, w'I.'A you owe Roger
Larola- p u'orroW ilpruing h. must have
these II his pnS,eSsI III vith,HG fault or fail
ure.'
81 thought he va, il y,ry ,tr>jtened cir
cualstanc,.s'
'He is"
"Thea this IS safety. Is TIA, my ven
geanre."
Through that he Is lost"
Il will 10 it, though do not understand
| it
She took the notes and hid them while Lu.
versan showed himself a few moments among
the guests. The next morning she drove to
Laroquo and left him the package Of money,
with what results We know
1t was two or three days later before Lucien
| heard Of Rogers arrest, under the accusation
Of robbery and murder
"That is the widest folly" SAID he, and
without losing time he went direct to NJ. Lie
nard, and he gave Lucian full Information of
tho case as far as il had goGe, who was uu-
| sparing in his denunciatiOn Of those who had
conSpired to accuse Roger Of 50 horrible a
| crime.
Returning full Of rage and mitigation. he
was the first to tell Julia She grnw pale,
but listened without saying a word. Vow
she undertook. LUyarsau Lli .ailnd La
rouette and Roger vas to bear q, blame
| She cxultcd over h," Vengeance. PoEor was
lost if she liinot speak Sha Va, NJ. touched
| by the sublime devotion Of l.arpiic, Who
preferred a condemnation auI almost certain
death to d5honoring Luei,n by r.. .aliug the
truth. Her hatred was not yet appeased
She had pleaded 50 much without having been
heard, had she'd 50 MARY bitter tears. that
now sho wished that her tears might be as
nothing beside those Of Roger.
The night she heard Of this she went to n
secret drawer in her bureau and taking there
from photograph Of Roger, she looked at
1t with burning eyes, AMI then with a half
| savage gesture she seized small poignard
and pierced the photograph through the
heart. Then on the back OF it she wrote tho
date Of the mnirier-"the 18th Of July 1872"
and a little lower the date Of the arrest
'the Both Of July, lS,2'--leayin3 the place
for the date of the sentence.
A few days later i.ucien said To his wife:
81 do not plead in court, but | shall 10
| heard once more
Vaguely uneasy Julia said:
What cause are you about to uadertale,"
"Don't you know Do you suppose that
am going to leave Roger without defense, in
the hands Of the president and jury at the
court OF aSsizesi l shall defend him and
snatch him from their hands-that is, if
my strength holds out. Perhaps this is tho
only time they will ever see poor, mutilated